domainname

 

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 Maintenance Commands                               domainname(1M)
 
 
 


NAME
      domainname - set or display name of the current domain
 


SYNOPSIS
      domainname [ name-of-domain ]
 


DESCRIPTION
      Without an argument, domainname displays  the  name  of  the
      current domain, which typically encompasses a group of hosts
      or passwd entries under the same administration.The  domain-
      name  command  is  used  by various components of Solaris to
      resolve names for types such as passwd, hosts  and  aliases.
      By  default,  various naming services such as NIS, NIS+, the
      Internet Domain Name Service (DNS) and sendmail(1M) use this
      domainname  to  resolve  names. The domainname is normally a
      valid Internet domain name.
 
      The domainname for various naming services can also  be  set
      by  other means.  For example, ypinit can be used to specify
      a  different  domain  for   all   NIS   calls.    The   file
      /etc/resolv.conf  can  be used to specify a different domain
      for DNS lookups.  For sendmail, the domainname can be speci-
      fied    through    the    sendmail_vars    entry    in   the
      /etc/nsswitch.conf      file,      or      through       the
      /etc/mail/sendmail.cf  file.  Only the superuser can set the
      name of the domain by specifying the new  domainname  as  an
      argument.   The  domain  name  of the machine is usually set
      during boot-time  through  the  domainname  command  in  the
      /etc/init.d/inetinit  file.   If  the new domain name is not
      saved in  the  /etc/defaultdomain  file,  the  machine  will
      revert back to the old domain after rebooting.
 


FILES
      /etc/defaultdomain"
 
      /etc/init.d/inetinit
 
      /etc/mail/sendmail.cf"
 
      /etc/nsswitch.conf"
 
      /etc/resolv.conf"
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 22 Feb 1993                    1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maintenance Commands                               domainname(1M)
 
 
 
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     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      nis+(1),    nischown(1),    nispasswd(1),    hostconfig(1M),
      named(1M),  nisaddcred(1M),  sendmail(1M),  ypinit(1M), sys-
      unconfig(1M),   aliases(4),   hosts(4),    nsswitch.conf(4),
      passwd(4), attributes(5)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 22 Feb 1993                    2
 
 
 

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